Lucid WEB: Anti-Scam, Anti-Phishing, Anti-Malware Chrome Extension
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Extension summary
Lucid Web is based on 5 efficient filters:
Anti Scam - Based on several factors, such as the domain age, its backlinks footprint, domain rank, certificates, etc. the extension predicts the risk of a shopping scam for a given website. Efficient against 0-day scam websites and known scam websites.
Anti-Phishing - APHISHI protection filter. APHISHI uses image-similarity algorithms to avoid phishing risks. The web-page screenshot is matched against leading Login-Screens of top websites such as Amazon, Goggle, Bing, Yahoo etc, If a match exists and the URL does not belong to these leading domains the page triggers a phishing warning. This approach is efficient especially against 0-day phishing attacks.
Anti Malware - To avoid viruses, trojan-horses, warms and/or other malware attacks, based on Google-Safe-Browsing and other platforms for estimating malware risks.
Adult Content - Optionally avoid adult content, based on website's declared rating and NLP classifiers for the text of the page, adult-content risk is triggered, whenever such risk is evident.
Gaming/Gambling - Optionally warn against gambling websites. Based on top gaming websites list and NLP on the text content of the page.
Extension safety
Risk impact
Lucid WEB requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Lucid WEB has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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